Questions and postings pertaining to the development of ImageMagick, feature enhancements, and ImageMagick internals. ImageMagick source code and algorithms are discussed here. Usage questions which are too arcane for the normal user list should also be posted here.

Your syntax is wrong, but IM 6 is forgiving. IM 7 will not be forgiving. ImageMagick does not follow the usual Unix syntax, but expects you to read a raster input image before applying processing commands to it, and then write the output.

This input image is 8-bit palette (pseudo color), when you resize you get more colors introduced which in this case is more the 256 colors so the result is converted to 24-bit color. To prevent this, write it as